St. Clemens (Heimbach)

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Catholic parish and pilgrimage church Heimbach old building St. Clemens (r.) And new building Salvatorkirche with Pietà and Antwerp reredos (l.)

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Clemens is in Heimbach (Eifel) in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Düren . The new St. Salvator Church is attached directly to the old parish church .

church

The Church of St. Clemens was consecrated on September 9, 1725, after it was rebuilt after the town fire of 1687, in which the predecessor church from the Middle Ages was destroyed.

The high altar , which is worth seeing, has a two-story tabernacle . The church is decorated in the Baroque style: the magnificent pulpit from the 18th century is, like the tabernacle, richly decorated and a prime example of the Baroque. Sacred art treasures are the four reliquary busts of the saints on the side altars and the holy grave group, from which the figures of the three women come from around 1500.

Pilgrimage

"Painful Mother of Heimbach" in the Antwerp reredos

Heimbach has been a well-known place of pilgrimage since 1804: every year, believers make a pilgrimage to the Pietà of the "Sorrowful Mother", which is embedded in a huge Antwerp carved altar that is now in the attached St. Salvator Church .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches, chapels and crosses in the Heimbach urban area . History - construction - equipment. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008, p. 11 .
  2. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches, chapels and crosses in the Heimbach urban area . History - construction - equipment. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008, p. 15 .
  3. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches, chapels and crosses in the Heimbach urban area . History - construction - equipment. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008, p. 17 .
  4. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches, chapels and crosses in the Heimbach urban area . History - construction - equipment. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008, p. 15th f., 19 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 46.4 ″  E